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Issue Details: First known date: 1846... 1846 Discoveries in Australia : With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the Years 1837-43
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Affiliation Notes

  • Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing

    John Lort Stokes (1811-1885), was an explorer and hydrographer who served the brig, Beagle, for eighteen years. He accompanied Charles Darwin’s voyage (1833-36), and later John Wickham navigating Australian waters. Stokes wrote Discoveries in Australia as a scientific documentation of the Australian colonies. He travelled to Australia as a part of the Royal Navy, recording the voyage via Africa, before landing in Western Australia. In a detailed manner, Stokes describes his travel and exploration on sea and land, as well as the Aboriginal populations, the Australian bush, flora and fauna. Although written in diary form, its tone was more practical than conversational.

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